Refugee Status Determination (RSD)

She says:“There are 65 million refugees around the world,this is the highest number ever recorded.”

Ever

The new #Ikea tent comes in colors like:

"Aleppo Sunrise"and

“Lifejacket Orange"

“it has everything they need” says the TVbut home,

(please, please, please open the border)I haven’t seen my mother since 2011, I forgot how to play the piano, I want to tell him I love him,I have diabetes and I will die without Insulin,

(please, please, please open the border)

Part Two

The march on Washington starts from Occupied Jerusalem.

This is how we refugee.

Jehan Bseiso is a Palestinian poet, researcher and aid worker. Her poetry has been published in Warscapes, The Funambulist, The Electronic Intifada, and Mada Masr among others. Her book I Remember My Name (2016) is the creative category winner of the Palestine Book Awards. Bseiso is co-editing Making Mirrors a new anthology by, for and about refugees. She is also working on a collection of poems:Conversations Continued, a compilation of real, misheard, and misremembered conversations. She has been working with Médecins sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders since 2008. Twitter @JehanBseiso

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The Mediterranean Sea has become a harrowing gauntlet for hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants each year. Through the intimacy and immediacy of fiction, poetry, photography and reportage, MEDITERRANEAN explores these turbulent journeys. Featuring Edwidge Danticat, Boris Boubacar Diop, Maaza Mengiste, Chika Unigwe, Hassan Ghedi Santur, Mario Badagliacca, Jehan Bseiso and many other talented writers and artists

An affecting, clear-eyed and brutally honest account of the refugee crisis. -Nadifa Mohamed, author of Black Mamba Boy and The Orchard of Lost Souls.

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